Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . BOSTON — Patients with trigger finger who received an injection of lidocaine with corticosteroid experienced ...

Trigger finger may be idiopathic, but it is common in early and late rheumatoid arthritis. It can affect any or all of the flexor tendons of the fingers in the palm. A tender nodule in the palm is ...

ORLANDO -- Patients with the hand ailment stenosing tenosynovitis -- "trigger finger" -- who need more than one corticosteroid injection within 6 months are likely to need early surgery and to develop ...

If you wake up with a finger that feels like it's locked in place, you've probably got trigger finger. This common condition makes it difficult to grip things and is one of the main causes of hand ...

Treatment of an injured or diseased joint may require precise insertion of a syringe needle -- musculoskeletal sonography can help guide clinicians as they drain fluid from arthritic knees or inject ...

Trigger finger is a condition in which a person’s finger locks or catches if they try to straighten or bend it. Most people experience trigger finger in the fourth (ring) finger or the thumb, but it ...

What are the diagnostic features of trigger finger? What differential diagnoses should be considered? The three diagnostic features are clicking, locking and pain. Trigger fingers are more common in ...